Steve Tendon

Founder & Managing Director, TameFlow Consulting Limited, and creator of the TameFlow Approach.

Virtue No. 3 of Kanban Column WIP Limits: Acting on Signals

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Column WIP limits provide…

… disruptive signals about where problems are materializing

More important than the signals themselves, is that the team learns the essential skill of how to look for, react on, and finally act upon the signals.

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